Integrative Psychotherapy and Somatic Healing

I use different psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal/relational, and somatic psychotherapies to help you with the issues that you want to address. 

Listed below are brief descriptions of some of the treatment modalities I incorporate into clinical practice, as the need arises.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy pairs acceptance and mindfulness skills with commitment to behavior change, so that difficult thoughts and feelings stop dictating action. The aim is clarity about personal values and steady movement toward them. 

Internal Family Systems brings awareness to your different internal voices so that you can begin to understand and resolve internal conflicts. By paying attention to the interactions between different parts of yourself, you can learn to develop a compassionate and trusting self-relationship, often resulting in significant improvement in symptoms and interactions with others. 

A key tenet of IFS is that all of us have a core self that is never damaged and does not need to be healed. As we gain access to our intrinsic, positive core qualities, we can establish authentic self-leadership.  

The purpose of psychodynamic treatment is to help you change and progress in your life. The development of self-awareness and insight is a step in achieving that progress. 

Psychodynamic treatment examines self-limiting assumptions, as well as unconscious motives and conflicts. It looks at their origins, and how to arrive at more current and adaptive understandings that can facilitate new options for solving problems, and for living.

Through EMDR, distressing memories and the beliefs attached to them are reprocessed so that they lose their charge and can be recalled without being relived. The method rests on the observation that people have a natural capacity to move toward health once the obstacles to it are cleared. 

The Flash Technique is a recently developed therapeutic intervention for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories.

Read more about trauma-focused psychotherapies.

This collaborative, goal-oriented method helps resolve the conflict between the pull of  habits and behaviors and core personal values, strengthening internal motivation to sustain meaningful progress. 

Read more about addiction-focused psychotherapies.

Somatic therapies represent a diverse class of clinical and non-clinical practices that include physical experience in psychological healing. Moving beyond the limits of cognitive insight and verbal expression alone, these modalities operate on the understanding that emotional distress, psychological conflicts, and traumatic experiences are physically encoded within our postures, movements, and sensory experiences.

I integrate breathwork, sensory awareness, and relaxation techniques to support the body's innate healing capacities. Somatic practices address emotional concerns and the physical effects of trauma that are often difficult to resolve through talk therapy alone. 

Here are some of the adjunctive, complementary, and non-clinical therapies I might use:

Through mindfulness practices, you can learn to stay in touch with the present moment, without having to ruminate about the past or agonize about the future. Meditation is not about “getting it right” or attaining any ideal state. It is about being able to stay present with ourselves and remaining open to whatever arises. 

Designed to induce a state of deep rest and relaxation, Yoga Nidra fosters the physical and emotional regulation necessary to sustain high-level performance in a world of constant demand. 

Learn more about Yoga Nidra. 

The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other psychological and physical trauma-related health problems. 

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, developed by Pat Ogden, treats the body's habits of holding and moving as part of the story and works with them directly, together with talk.  

Learn more about trauma-informed somatic therapies.